Calvin Coolidge

If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and, of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods.

In accordance with the Mississippi flood law Army engineers are making investigations and surveys on other streams throughout the country with a view to flood control, navigation, waterpower, and irrigation.

On the whole the finances of the Government are most satisfactory.

Under this sound and healthful encouragement the national income has increased nearly 50 per cent, until it is estimated to stand well over $90,000,000,000.

This action began by the application of economy to public expenditure.

The main source of these unexampled blessings lies in the integrity and character of the American people.

In the domestic field there is tranquility and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

The rapid and legitimate expansion of our air service, military and commercial, is an achievement in which we can all take pride.

We are committed irrevocably to a balanced Budget and that carries the assurance that the only revision of our tax laws which will be considered is a revision downward.

Our splendid Treasury is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be eternally watched and carefully and wisely directed into proper channels.

I hope this year it can be kept confined exclusively to news services and not fall into the hands of others.

But each year they turn up in the hands of the people that are in no wise connected with the press like legislative agents in Washington, brokerage offices in different cities, so that I think the news reporters or news agents to whom my…

There isn't very much legislation, so far as I have been able to discover, that is exceedingly pressing that is new.

I want to get the Message done so that it can be early in the hands of the press and that leads me to make a suggestion that is bom of my past experience, that the advance copies that are given out are given out exclusively for the use of…

I am working on my Message to the Congress.

We have some of the old problems that have been left over from the various messages that I have sent in before and such surveys of the country as I have received from reports of various departments indicate that the country is in very good…

For the purpose of assisting the news distribution we make these early deliveries of the message.

I have made some progress on it.

The Government of the United States wants to see the condition of the farmer continue to improve.

I haven't seen any report of a suggestion that it is said here was made in the House of Lords yesterday proposing an English-American mutual arms limitation.

The United States Government was trying to fix the price of silver by law, which, of course, was bound to fail.

The main reason for this has been the sound foundation on which it stands.

Of course, our country would consider any suggestion that the responsible authorities of the British Government wanted to submit to us.

The direct benefit which accrues to the borrowers from these banks, because all National, State, and local taxes are thus remitted on their borrowings, is probably not less than $500,000,000 a year.